The PHD Finger of the Chromatin-Associated Protein ING2 Functions as a Nuclear Phosphoinositide Receptor

• Published in: Cell Vol. 114; no. 1; pp. 99 - 111
• Main Authors: Gozani, Or, Karuman, Philip, Jones, David R., Ivanov, Dmitri, Cha, James, Lugovskoy, Alexey A., Baird, Cheryl L., Zhu, Hong, Field, Seth J., Lessnick, Stephen L., Villasenor, Jennifer, Mehrotra, Bharat, Chen, Jian, Rao, Vikram R., Brugge, Joan S., Ferguson, Colin G., Payrastre, Bernard, Myszka, David G., Cantley, Lewis C., Wagner, Gerhard, Divecha, Nullin, Prestwich, Glenn D., Yuan, Junying
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States Elsevier Inc 11.07.2003
• Subjects: 1-Phosphatidylinositol 4-Kinase - metabolism; Amino Acid Sequence - genetics; Apoptosis - genetics; Base Sequence - genetics; Cell Membrane - genetics; Cell Membrane - metabolism; Cell Nucleus - genetics; Cell Nucleus - metabolism; DNA Damage - genetics; Eukaryotic Cells - metabolism; Genes, Tumor Suppressor; Homeodomain Proteins - antagonists & inhibitors; Homeodomain Proteins - genetics; Homeodomain Proteins - metabolism; Humans; Molecular Sequence Data; Phosphatidylinositol Phosphates - metabolism; Protein Binding - genetics; Protein Structure, Tertiary - genetics; Receptors, Cytoplasmic and Nuclear - genetics; Receptors, Cytoplasmic and Nuclear - metabolism; RNA Interference; Signal Transduction - genetics; Tumor Cells, Cultured; Tumor Suppressor Protein p53 - genetics; Tumor Suppressor Protein p53 - metabolism; Tumor Suppressor Proteins
• ISSN: 0092-8674; 1097-4172
• DOI: 10.1016/S0092-8674(03)00480-X

Phosphoinositides (PtdInsPs) play critical roles in cytoplasmic signal transduction pathways. However, their functions in the nucleus are unclear, as specific nuclear receptors for PtdInsPs have not been identified. Here, we show that ING2, a candidate tumor suppressor protein, is a nuclear PtdInsP receptor. ING2 contains a plant homeo domain (PHD) finger, a motif common to many chromatin-regulatory proteins. We find that the PHD fingers of ING2 and other diverse nuclear proteins bind in vitro to PtdInsPs, including the rare PtdInsP species, phosphatidylinositol 5-phosphate (PtdIns(5)P). Further, we demonstrate that the ING2 PHD finger interacts with PtdIns(5)P in vivo and provide evidence that this interaction regulates the ability of ING2 to activate p53 and p53-dependent apoptotic pathways. Together, our data identify the PHD finger as a phosphoinositide binding module and a nuclear PtdInsP receptor, and suggest that PHD-phosphoinositide interactions directly regulate nuclear responses to DNA damage.